So the £30m we'll have to lay out for Sakho along with another £30m (possibly) for Origi? Can't see us spending anywhere near £60m - especially on only 2 players.

Sakho and a couple of relative cheap buys before deadline I think . . .

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Will be available again in the summer. Can't see him making the liverpool squad for next year. Once you go on loan, you're forgotten. Wolfsburg might even go down, but he didn't have a bad season himself.
Plays as both winger and striker, has much more speed than Benteke. His price has gone down so he should be available.

Edit: except when you're from that same country and called up to the national team.
It's like a national pride for Chelsea now, so they won't let RLC go. That's what I think.

Origi on the other hand......

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I see he's made the Belgium WC squad so Matteo is correct he must have been doing something right at Wolfsburg.

Given the glut of strikers/forward options at Liverpool you'd have to think he'd be available if only on loan. He's quick and able to play both centrally and wider and could be a great fit up front for Wilf - certainly more natural in that position than Andros if we choose to play that way again.

Price? It does get a little boring funding Liverpool's raids on Soton. If he features at the WC we could well have to pay over the odds again. But then again Danny Ings must surely want a little more action than he gets!

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Origi is a 23 yo player though, totally worth 30 million.

But, from what I understood, Klopp is waiting for him to come back from Wolfsburg (where he's had a pretty good individual season) to have a talk with him about his future at Liverpool.
Solanke is on his way out on loan. Who will be the 3 backups for Salah, Mane and Firmino next year? Sturridge probaby will go. One of Fekir/Lemar will come in. One of Ings and Origi will be kept.
Origi seems the only one who can actually deputise as center forward too, cause it's a position where they aren't actively searching for a player to transfer.

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32 goals and assists against top division teams in the last 3 years (4600 minutes as center forward).
1 goal or assist in less than 150 minutes.
Really fast too, deployed as winger several times

Yup and Benteke is the 2nd biggest scorer with his head in the prem. A shoe-in for a club whose brand is wing play and crosses to the "big man".

On paper it was a no-brainer and good value for an internaional striker in the current market. That it failed this season for reasons no-one can put their finger on could not be predicted.

Hindsight is such a wonderful thing.

Ha.

Must have had a bit of a bad Google moment when I said he was in the world cup squad - this time around he hasn't even made the 28. That says a bit when Benteke has made the squad.

Reading further his spell at Wolfsburg wasn't quite the success reported either. A Sky report from the end of March has stats showing a horrid run of 17 games with just one goal and performances that tailed off notably after a bright start.

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I would have thought 30 mill was too much anyway and he wouldn't seem to have done anything at Wolfsburg to take him up a bracket. You're buying potential as much as anything.

divock sounds like an insult. "you f***ing stupid divock". we should keep well clear on that basis alone.

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Jesus....that's a real fact based thinking!! How about taking into consideration superstitions too when deciding about going for a player or keeping clear?